Secretarial profession, which performs both operational and managerial role to assist the executives requiring high intelligence, formal educational background, initiative, and better appearance, is misrepresented in Korean business circles. A recent survey conducted to 99 secretaries of four different groups of Korean firms, foreign firms, joint-ventures, and government offices and schools has revealed the followings: (1) The secretaries in Korean firms are forced to leave their work once they get married, and largely for this reason 82.2 % of them fall in the age group of 22-25. In contrast, foreign firms do not consider individuals` marital status as a factor in their employment decisions. (2) 51.6 % of the secretaries employed in Korean firms are high school graduates and about 70 % of those in foreign firms are college graduates. (3) Secretaries in foreign firms receive 2 to 3 times more monthly salaries than secretaries in Korean firms. Ironically, the latter has a lot more irregular and longer working hours than the former. (4) Secretaries in foreign firms are found to perform more professional tasks while those in Korean firms assume works which require considerably less professional skills or knowledge. (5) There are not many educational institutions or training facilities available for the girls who aspire to reach the status of a professional secretary. These findings raise two serious problems: One is the traditional $quot;male superiority attitude$quot; among the Korean business firms. It is this attitude that prevails over mangement decisions related to secretarial status such as the regulation forbidding secretaries to work atfer their marriage, standards on the educational background, salary and other working conditions, quality of the duties to be given to the secretaries, etc. It is urgently recommended that the Korean business firms change their attitude and accept the challenge from professional secretaries to benefit both businesses and secretaries. The other is the lack of formal educational institutions for professional secretaries. Various types of educational institutions and training facilities are very much needed.